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The Principles of Sustainability
Simon Dresner
Earthscan
2002
Hardback 208pp ISBN 9781853838415
£60.00
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Softback 208pp ISBN 9781853838422
£17.00
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At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration, sustainability is one of the
most important issues facing the world today. Can we create a sustainable society?
What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about
such a profound change in the way things are organized?
This book tackles these questions directly. It goes beyond the rhetoric to explain the deeper issues in a way that is accessible and interesting to the non-specialist reader. It covers:
- the historical development of the concept of sustainability
- contemporary debates about how to achieve it
- the obstacles and the prospects for overcoming them.
This book, written in a clear and readable style, assumes no previous knowledge of the subject. It will be invaluable to students, academics and activists concerned with sustainable development.CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Past
1 Progress and its Discontents
2 From Muir to Meadows
3 Sustainability Emerging
4 From Rio to Kyoto and Later Disappointments
Part Two: Present
5 What Does €Sustainable Development€ Mean?
6 Taking Sustainability into Economics
7 €Putting a Price on the Planet€
8 The Ethics of Sustainability
Part Three: Future
9 The End of Sustainability?
References
Bibliography
Index
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